DUST Search - Tired of getting my frickin teeth kicked in

Imp Smash wrote:

Jet Jaguar 96 wrote:

Been playing about 3 weeks. Spent most all my XP on making my scrambler rifle better but it hasn't helped.

I made some money when I first started cause I just used the equipment you get at the beginning but I was getting owned and it got old real fast.

I thought I would try playing the faction war mode. I have not joined a corporation so I just play alone so far. In faction war I am 4 wins and 33 losses so far. I looked it up on that screen. I ran the advanced scrambler rifle most of time but had no impact on my team.

After all these hours of playing I have no money, and very little motivation to continue. How do you keep at it when you never win and feel you are not leveling your character up?

My friend was over while I was playing he asked what it was I said don't bother you can't get off square one. I'm back to my beginning suits and getting creamed can't even buy good scrambler.

How do you guys do it? Feel I am close to quitting.

This is a very social game. And it will be a long time till you get ANY good games because your SP needs to go to the foundation skills (like bonus cpu/pg/armor/shield/etc.)

Get in the LFSquad channel. There are a few other LFS channels around. Join a corp. Get a mic. Play with people. It will COMPLETELY change the game for you. THEN you'll be up until like 6 in the morning like ~~~~~Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~~~~~~~~" more often than is comfortable.

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Imp Smash Molon Labe. General Tso's Alliance 349	Posted - 2014.11.11 06:37:00 - [31] - Quote Jet Jaguar 96 wrote: Been playing about 3 weeks. Spent most all my XP on making my scrambler rifle better but it hasn't helped. I made some money when I first started cause I just used the equipment you get at the beginning but I was getting owned and it got old real fast. I thought I would try playing the faction war mode. I have not joined a corporation so I just play alone so far. In faction war I am 4 wins and 33 losses so far. I looked it up on that screen. I ran the advanced scrambler rifle most of time but had no impact on my team. After all these hours of playing I have no money, and very little motivation to continue. How do you keep at it when you never win and feel you are not leveling your character up? My friend was over while I was playing he asked what it was I said don't bother you can't get off square one. I'm back to my beginning suits and getting creamed can't even buy good scrambler. How do you guys do it? Feel I am close to quitting. This is a very social game. And it will be a long time till you get ANY good games because your SP needs to go to the foundation skills (like bonus cpu/pg/armor/shield/etc.) Get in the LFSquad channel. There are a few other LFS channels around. Join a corp. Get a mic. Play with people. It will COMPLETELY change the game for you. THEN you'll be up until like 6 in the morning like ~~~~~Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~~~~~~~~" more often than is comfortable.
Kensai Dragon DUST University Ivy League 62	Posted - 2014.11.11 06:39:00 - [32] - Quote Imp Smash wrote: Jet Jaguar 96 wrote: Been playing about 3 weeks. Spent most all my XP on making my scrambler rifle better but it hasn't helped. I made some money when I first started cause I just used the equipment you get at the beginning but I was getting owned and it got old real fast. I thought I would try playing the faction war mode. I have not joined a corporation so I just play alone so far. In faction war I am 4 wins and 33 losses so far. I looked it up on that screen. I ran the advanced scrambler rifle most of time but had no impact on my team. After all these hours of playing I have no money, and very little motivation to continue. How do you keep at it when you never win and feel you are not leveling your character up? My friend was over while I was playing he asked what it was I said don't bother you can't get off square one. I'm back to my beginning suits and getting creamed can't even buy good scrambler. How do you guys do it? Feel I am close to quitting. This is a very social game. And it will be a long time till you get ANY good games because your SP needs to go to the foundation skills (like bonus cpu/pg/armor/shield/etc.) Get in the LFSquad channel. There are a few other LFS channels around. Join a corp. Get a mic. Play with people. It will COMPLETELY change the game for you. THEN you'll be up until like 6 in the morning like ~~~~~Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu~~~~~~~~" more often than is comfortable. Yup
Summa Militum Hidd3n Dragon 21	Posted - 2014.11.11 07:04:00 - [33] - Quote Jet Jaguar 96 wrote: Been playing about 3 weeks. Spent most all my XP on making my scrambler rifle better but it hasn't helped. I made some money when I first started cause I just used the equipment you get at the beginning but I was getting owned and it got old real fast. I thought I would try playing the faction war mode. I have not joined a corporation so I just play alone so far. In faction war I am 4 wins and 33 losses so far. I looked it up on that screen. I ran the advanced scrambler rifle most of time but had no impact on my team. After all these hours of playing I have no money, and very little motivation to continue. How do you keep at it when you never win and feel you are not leveling your character up? My friend was over while I was playing he asked what it was I said don't bother you can't get off square one. I'm back to my beginning suits and getting creamed can't even buy good scrambler. How do you guys do it? Feel I am close to quitting. I have been playing for about 6 and 1/2 months now and I have gone from constantly getting slaughtered horribly to being able to hold my own pretty well and I am an all-out solo player; I have never run with a squad and I have no desire to ever do that. I am going to break down what I did to get decent at this game. 1. Since you are just now starting off pick one type of weapon and one type of dropsuit to play with and stick with it. Do not invest Skill Points in anymore than 1 weapon or dropsuit for right now; you will need those skill points to level up more important skills. 2. Invest skill points into Armor Upgrades. Try to get your armor and shield amount when combined to be at least 500. When you engage in combat with someone you are going to want to stay alive long enough to get a feel of how it is to actually battle someone in this game. Whether or not you actually prevail in the battle engagements will not necessarily matter at first. Your ultimate goal needs to be for you to stay alive long enough for you to at least have the opportunity to shoot or try to shoot the enemy. If your armor and shield are too low you will die immediately. 3. Do not run around by yourself. You do not need to be a part of a squad, all you need to do is make sure you have teammates around you. ALWAYS STICK WITH THE PEOPLE ON YOUR TEAM. 4. Do not beat yourself up if you do not get any kills in a match or if you only get 1 or 2. When I first started I would stay close to my teammates and I would help them take down whoever they are fighting. At first I constantly played matches in which my end game stats would be something like 2 kills, 20+ assists, and 10+ deaths. It sucks at first but as your character develops the game becomes easier to handle. 5. Invest in your Core Skills. The Core Skills will take you a long way. I personally think Precision Enhancement, Profile Dampening, and Range Amplification are very important skills to level up. In the game if you ever walk around a corner and immediately get blasted away by someone and you are left wondering how that person had any idea that you were coming, it is because of those skills. 6. Do not stand in one place and do not look in the same direction for more than 5 to 7 seconds at a time. Always be aware of what is going on around you. Constantly look to see if someone is sneaking up on you or your teammates. 7. If you are standing with your teammates and everyone is firing off at a group of enemies and you start to hear a shotgun go off, you need to immediately stop what you are doing and turn around to shoot the guy with the shotgun who just snuck up on your teammates and is now slaughtering them by shooting them in the back all Scareface style. 8. SHOOT THE GUY WITH THE SHOTGUN WHO SNUCK UP ON YOUR TEAM AND IS NOW SLAUGHTERING THEM. 9. This next tip will help you handle cluster-**** situations. Something that I did was anytime I knew of a spawn trap I would purposely spawn there so that I could practice jumping and juking around a bunch of people trying to kill me. My only goal was to kill at least one person after spawning in a spawn trap. If you can handle taking out one person immediately after jumping into a spawn trap all while having half a dozen or more people shooting at you than you will do fine in one-on-one combat. 10. Shoot every enemy you see and hack as many things as you can (enemy vehicles don't matter because you don't get points for doing that). Even if the enemy is too far away for you to reasonably expect to kill them you should shoot at them anyways. The little bit of damage you provide could be that little bit extra needed for one of your teammates who is closer to the enemy to make the kill. I think that might be all I have right now.
Leadfoot10 Molon Labe. General Tso's Alliance 2118	Posted - 2014.11.11 07:45:00 - [34] - Quote To reiterate other important points: . be prepared to die and lose a lot . only run pub matches, not factional (which is an isk sink). . get a mic & join learning coalition, or at least squad with them. . consider joining a corp . invest in core skills first, then weapons, then suits -- you're probably better off leaving weapons and suits alone for a while . stick near other blueberries - a lone newbro is an easy target . play around with militia weapons, see which ones you like and try to find a combo that is complimentary in terms of shields/armor damage . be prepared to die and lose a lot.
Ryme Intrinseca Eurotrash Pubstars 1974	Posted - 2014.11.11 08:28:00 - [35] - Quote hfderrtgvcd wrote: This game is designed around teamwork. If you play solo you will lose over and over again and get frustrated. I played 20 games yesterday solo, won 19. Most of them were incredibly one sided, with a 50+ clone difference between winner and loser. So it is entirely possible to win solo IF the matchmaking gods are on your side.
MINA Longstrike Kirjuun Heiian 1577	Posted - 2014.11.11 08:36:00 - [36] - Quote Jet Jaguar 96 wrote: Been playing about 3 weeks. Spent most all my XP on making my scrambler rifle better but it hasn't helped. I made some money when I first started cause I just used the equipment you get at the beginning but I was getting owned and it got old real fast. I thought I would try playing the faction war mode. I have not joined a corporation so I just play alone so far. In faction war I am 4 wins and 33 losses so far. I looked it up on that screen. I ran the advanced scrambler rifle most of time but had no impact on my team. After all these hours of playing I have no money, and very little motivation to continue. How do you keep at it when you never win and feel you are not leveling your character up? My friend was over while I was playing he asked what it was I said don't bother you can't get off square one. I'm back to my beginning suits and getting creamed can't even buy good scrambler. How do you guys do it? Feel I am close to quitting. You made the classic rookie mistake of spending SP on a weapon instead of a dropsuit and passive skills for the dropsuit. The change from STD -> Proto weaponry is (in most cases) 10% damage. The change from MLT - ADV dropsuit, and MLT -> Pro modules is often double or triple the HP you would have had. Hnolai ki tuul, ti sei oni a tiu. Kirjuun Heiian. I have a few alts.
Ryme Intrinseca Eurotrash Pubstars 1974	Posted - 2014.11.11 08:38:00 - [37] - Quote MINA Longstrike wrote: Jet Jaguar 96 wrote: Been playing about 3 weeks. Spent most all my XP on making my scrambler rifle better but it hasn't helped. I made some money when I first started cause I just used the equipment you get at the beginning but I was getting owned and it got old real fast. I thought I would try playing the faction war mode. I have not joined a corporation so I just play alone so far. In faction war I am 4 wins and 33 losses so far. I looked it up on that screen. I ran the advanced scrambler rifle most of time but had no impact on my team. After all these hours of playing I have no money, and very little motivation to continue. How do you keep at it when you never win and feel you are not leveling your character up? My friend was over while I was playing he asked what it was I said don't bother you can't get off square one. I'm back to my beginning suits and getting creamed can't even buy good scrambler. How do you guys do it? Feel I am close to quitting. You made the classic rookie mistake of spending SP on a weapon instead of a dropsuit and passive skills for the dropsuit. The change from STD -> Proto weaponry is (in most cases) 10% damage. The change from MLT - ADV dropsuit, and MLT -> Pro modules is often double or triple the HP you would have had. I got killed by a dude with a Creodron Breach AR and starter fit the other day. I felt shame and delight in equal measure.
MINA Longstrike Kirjuun Heiian 1577	Posted - 2014.11.11 08:39:00 - [38] - Quote Joel II X wrote: Nocturnal Soul wrote: Join Amarr1 to find guys to play "amarr" fw with. What happened to PIE? Pie is still around, still active and still the better channel. They'll likely be announcing another call to arms soon. Hnolai ki tuul, ti sei oni a tiu. Kirjuun Heiian. I have a few alts.
Ahkhomi Cypher Opus Arcana Covert Intervention 413	Posted - 2014.11.11 09:42:00 - [39] - Quote Always remember that its a videogame. It's not that serious. I swear that there are some grownass men that play this game and legit feel cyberbullied or something. Just play the game and have fun. Its a videogame with space guns and stuff. "Not that serious bruh" Opus Arcana \| TBD Ringleader Hi
Jet Jaguar 96 Amarr Templars Amarr Empire 4	Posted - 2014.11.11 22:52:00 - [40] - Quote Thanx to everyone for offering advice. I haven't decided if I'll keep playing but it's cool that peeps want to help.



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